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" I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place. "

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" I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it. "

" Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business. "

" No artist is well served in thinking what will happen to their works. The best one can hope is that they'll enter the mainstream, and people will pull bits and pieces from them. "

" In circuses, there is a lot of magic. Things become other things. "

" Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck. "

" What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about. "

" There are very few critics who have historical context or authority. "

" If a thing moves, it lives. "

" This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age. "

" My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment. "

" Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways. "

" Proust writes, he remembers, physically. He depends on his body to give him the information that will bring him to the past. His book is called 'In Search of Lost Time,' and he does it through the senses. He does it through smell. He does it through feeling. He does it through texture. It is all physically driven, that language. "

" Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere. "

" I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work. "

" With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances. "

" If I didn't believe in myself as a dancer, I wouldn't choreograph. "

" When I started making dances in the '60s, narrative dance was sort of off the radar screen. What was important at the time in the avant-garde was minimalism. "

" I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter. "

" I realize that dancers have worked long and hard for standards. However, on occasion, I think that it's good to examine one's heart and ask why are we dancing. "

" The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally. "

" People often say to me, 'I don't know anything about dance.' I say, 'Stop. You got up this morning, and you're walking. You are an expert.' "

" Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it. "

" I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity. "

" Broadway has some very tight expectations as to what a show is. "

" Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms. "

" I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy. "

" I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys. "

" When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art. "

" 'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people. "